Caledonian Wedding Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour an 9 by 2-inch round pan and a 9 by 9 by 2-inch square pan. Combine the sugar and marzipan in a food processor. Pulse until combined into fine crumbs. Cream the butter in a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer) until smooth. Add the sugar-marzipan mixture and mix. Add the vanilla and mix. Add the eggs two at a time, mixing after each one. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and ginger together. Working in batches, add the dry ingredients to the marzipan mixture, mixing after each addition just until combined. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out dry and clean (a few crumbs are okay) and let cool in the pan.
• Combine sugar and water and bring to a boil on a medium saucepan. Boil until a candy thermometer registers 240 degrees F. Whip egg yolks until light and fluffy and carefully pour the sugar water mixture into the yolks while the mixer is running at a moderate speed. Continue whipping until cooled. Add softened butter in small batches, stopping after each addition. Remove the 9-inch round cake from the pan, and cut a 5-inch and a 3-inch circle of cake from the 9-inch square pan. Cover them with butter cream and freeze. Dye fondant pastel pink, blue and yellow by kneading food coloring into it. Roll out on a powdered sugared surface and cut 1 circle out of each color to cover 1 layer of the cake, leaving 2 extra inches to hang over sides. Lay the fondant over the cake layers and with your hands, mold the fondant over the cake to fit. Trim the edge and tuck it slightly under the cake. On a large cake platter, stack the layers and run a long skewer down the center.
• Whip together powdered sugar and 3 to 4 tablespoons of the egg whites so it's pipe-able but not too thin that it runs on the cake. Decorate cake with piped royal icing using a plain small tip, starting at the bottom layer. You can embellish with silver balls, gum paste flowers on top, etc.

Steps:

• Syrup: boil ingredients.
• Melt butter and sugar and beat for 5 minutes, then add eggs one by one mixing in between.
• Mix flour and semolina and add to egg mixture gradually.
• Pour into greased pan, and bake 40-45 minutes at 400 degrees.
• When baked, cut into diamond shapes and pour syrup over the cake (make sure the syrup and the cake are both hot).
• Crushed walnuts may be sprinkled on top of the mixture before baking or lemon or orange rind may be added to the mixture before cooking.

Steps:

• sift together flour, bp and salt twice.
• beat egg whites until foamy.
• add 6 Tbs sugar, 1Tbs at a time beating until mixture stands in soft peaks.
• cream shortening, add 1 2/3 cup sugar, cream until light and fluffy, add vanilla and almond extract.
• Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating after eah addition until smooth.
• Add egg whites and beat for one minute until smooth.
• Grease pans two nine inch square pans or one 13x9x2.
• Bake in moderate oven 350, square pans take 30 to 40 min oblong pan 35 to40.
• Cool cake on racks 10 minute.
• Loosen from sides of pan turn right side up to cool.
• To keep from drying cover or wrap cake as soon as cooled.
• Make recipe 5 times to serve 100 guest.
• When cake is assembled frost the sides of whole cake.
• Start at the top and work toward bottom layers.
• Ornamental frosting: 12 cup butter 1/2 tsp salt 12 cup confectioners sugar sifted 5 egg whites unbeaten 1/2 cup cream 2 tsp vanilla.
• Cream butter, add salt gradually add about 1 cup of the sugar, blending well.
• Add creaming sugar alternately with egg whites. Cream until right consistency to spread.
• Aply a thin glaze to cake before frosting to anchor crumbs.
• Make glaze by adding hot water to some of the frosting.
• About 1 tbs water to 1 cup frosting.
• To tint frosting add about 1/4 tsp food color with 1 tbs frosting, add small amounts of this to your base frosting.
• Tint enough to frost whole cake as it is hard to match colors with another batch.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F Have all ingredients at room temperature. Beat eggs and sugar at high speed until foamy. Add butter and beat for a few minutes. Blend dry ingredients and add to egg mixture; add walnuts, stir well. Bake in a 9 inch by 13 inch greased pan for about 30 minutes or until done.
• FOR SYRUP: Boil all ingredients together for 20 minutes. Cool. While cake is still warm, cut in diamond shape pieces; cool and pour cooled syrup over cake.
• Traditional Macedonian Recipes Ladies' Auxiliary 'Mara Buneva' Toronto, Canada.

Steps:

• Place first 6 ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Add more sugar if needed.
• Place the orange segments in four long-stemmed glasses and add a teaspoon of brandy (or rum) to each glass.
• Divide the cream on top of each.
• Chill until ready to serve. Serve chilled.

Steps:

• Bake 10 hours in a slow oven.
• One-quarter of this makes a nice large cake; full quantities, 4 stories high.